skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF real estate transfer tax for 2024 is $177 million, 5% less than 2023. Astonishingly, the city had projected revenue of $222 million. That means there is another $45 million revenue gap.

SF is now expecting an $876 million deficit in 2025, which may exceed $1 billion if requested federal disaster funds aren't fulfilled. And expenses are expected to increase by $1.7 billion for a budget that is currently $16 billion.

Oakland is broke too.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-expects-876-mil...

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2024/12/09/tra...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/daniel-lurie-stares-d...

https://sfethics.org/commission/budget
Tangentially, a big reason I dislike hotels particularly the UK is the trend of removing windows that open and generally getting sick from the rooms. Lots of fire retardants, plus the residual cleaning chemicals in the sheets. The more modern or renovated a hotel, the more likely this is

I often get chest pains and watery eyes from hotel rooms, compounded by the lack of fresh air

All because the hotel wants to save a few £ in case someone leaves the window open with the aircon on

And the reason fire retardants are so heavily used is because the chemical companies heavily lobbied for it years ago, plus manufacturers love being able to use cheaper materials and methods then just dousing in a cheap chemical to achieve the specification
> It is VERY clear that exploiting the commons diminishes its value.

does it diminish, if the commons is knowledge based, such as online sources? Those sources does not truly disappear after the information is extracted and placed into an LLM.

Unlike a physical commons, which has limitations on use, informational commons don't.

So the fact that someone else is able to gain more value out of the knowledge than others is not a reason to make them scummy - as if they alone don't deserve access to the knowledge that you claim should be free.

If contributors, after seeing how someone else is able to make profits off previously freely available knowledge, feel that they somehow now suddenly deserve to be paid after the fact, then i dont know how to say it but to call it sour grapes.
It’s fascinating to think about how long it took Google to fully embrace advertising. I completely agree with the previous posters point—Google strongly resisted ads, which were everywhere back then.

Then they went full corporate and their real turning point, came in 2007 with their acquisition of DoubleClick, about 12 years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin famously claimed that advertising and search engines don’t mix.

Now compare that to OpenAI. It launched in 2015, nine years ago, but ChatGPT didn’t arrive until 2022—less than two years ago. Google took over a decade to transform its core business with ads and figure out how to become a profit machine.

Let's practice some intellectual humility and acknowledge that OpenAI still has time to work this out. History shows that even if it takes some time, that's perfectly fine.
Again here is both Haaretz and Times of Israel articles that are discussing Greater Israel ideology:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42546044

You can continue to say it is far flung or a conspiracy but apparently Israeli newspapers disagree with you. Honestly who am I to believe? Random anonymous commenter on hacker news or many articles in Israeli newspapers written by journalists? I’ll go with Israeli newspapers and real journalists.
The American security state has been broken for a long time, principally because it seems to perpetually turn in on itself and the citizenry, so without devolving deep into politics I would posit he was just the wrong guy at the wrong time with respect to this issue.

Of primary issue, who could do anything about it? You'd think the superpower would have an answer but there was none.

Eventually this leads to the formation of CT teams (Delta/ST6) and this boondoggle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw. Had the apparatus been ready for him, the security state might have been able to make a Zero Dark Thirty movie with his image playing a prominent role.
Alright then, keep your secrets.
It’s that sang, “radiologist aren’t losing their jobs due to AI .. only radiologist who don’t use AI are losing their jobs”.
Bazel is weird. I work at Google, and it's fundamental to our engineering, and I love it for that, but to me it's an internal tool. Nearly all Bazel code I work with is internal (most open source uses of it I see aren't doing enough customisation to be worth it in my opinion), it integrates into so many parts of our engineering workflow, and uses so many internal services like our build farm.

I'm not sure I see much point in using it outside of Google. Maybe if you're a company within 1/10th the size and have a lot of Xooglers? It seems like the sort of thing where most companies don't need it and therefore shouldn't use it, and those that do need it probably need to build their own that's right for them.
AI tools may soon manipulate people's online decision-making, say researchers
That's not how expectancy works. Perhaps if you had n great grandads, with n approaching infinity, on average they would make it to 109. But there is no telling for your own particular grandad.
In that thread I first heard about anki smart notes : https://www.smart-notes.xyz/
Apple continues to send out exploit notifications and Lockdown Mode continues to grow to include more attack surface. It seems to be actively maintained, as opposed to a lot of other things that Apple has tried.
What is a Gazan supposed to do if they wish to opt out of this situation?
LLMs are not that different from humans, in both cases you have some limited working memory and you need to fit the most relevant context into it. This means that if you have a new knowledge base for llms it should be useful for humans too. There should be a lot of cross pollination between these tools.

But we need a theory on the differences too. Now it is kind of random how we differentiate the tools. We need ergonomics for llms.
Let me guess, it's going to be "AI assisted"
No. Procrastinators will unconsiusly use these tasks as an excuse to pause work. Getting something to drink, looking for a music etc. removes these common excuses, so that the only thing left to do is work.

Many procrastinators have ADHD, and they often dehydrate.

Choosing a proper music is a good way to stay productive. The music depends on your condition and type of work. If you're sleepy you'll benefit from listening to something that gets you moving - for example you shake your leg, head, or do any other minor movement while listening to the music.

Some items on that list are very short and don't need much mental effort, e.g "How long will I work on the task?" Most people use 30-90 intervals of work and choosing it is a knee-jerk reaction (nothing wrong with that). Also, it's good to have a deadline for each task in case it blows up.
I don't actually think there is official API to check if the device is in Lockdown Mode. But to be clear this is an academic curiosity for now as nobody is actually shipping an alternative browser engine in the EU that is being targeted by a sophisticated attack.
At least Kamala's not a rapist.
But Mull is still discontinued, right? Or did I misunderstand?

Which alternative would you recommend?
Yeah I'm just commenting on what the path for that would be
It can be problematic even as an option. Now doctors have a conflict of interest because they make more money from private insurances than within the public system. It also needs to be finely balanced otherwise too much of the spending is through private companies, starving the public system of funds.

It can work, but it needs to be very carefully regulated.
it wasn't the wall that got them actually it was the poorly designed ILS embankment that should have been ground level. but yeah you're right it is somewhat probable that it was two engines out as the evidence comes in
None of which is relevant to my point.
Nix solves this as a byproduct (as it does with many things) of its design. You can have your tests be a "build", where the build succeeds if your tests pass. Any builds can be cached, which means you're essentially caching tests you've already run. Since Nix is deterministic, you never have to rerun any tests until anything about them that could change the evaluation changes.
He sent it via his Personal Computer, a precursor to the smartphone.
When you get an error like this, the stack trace directly shows the circular chain of imports. I don't see what this is adding for a codebase that has adequate testing, or even just tests that make sure every file gets `import`ed.
My point was that when one talks about examples of hand-made, artisan tools __microchips__ are not a good example for a handcrafted tool.

I don’t get why that is so controversial. Microchips are definitely not what I have in mind when I talk about a “tool” at all.

You say that this is a good enough example to completely refute the OPs point which I disagree with.
Product / Tech:

- Retro game engines
- Doom engine
- Wolfenstein engine
- Raycasting
- Console/PC emulators getting more popular
- New search engines doing okay (Kagi etc)
- Linux distros
- Programming
- Anything low-level
- C , C#, Rust
- Anything without the term "AI" in it
- Retro phones
Did we forget its called the network effect?
My grandfather smoked packs of cigs/day from his 11th when he started working his parents fields. My mother never saw him without a sigaretten in his mouth. Died obese and still smoking at 96 suddenly (no known health issues). Seems a lot longer, but of course he wouldn't. And a lot less happy I think: the guy never stopped smiling and cracking jokes and singing; he liked his drink, smoke and a lot of food; if he would have to let those go, I think it would've made him very different. Will never know of course.
> well, except for the ultra nationalism

and also excepting the fact that he wants to end abortion, be a dictator, end elections, and drill babay drill.

Other than that he's very left. Very.
I agree for most cases but not all cases.
Many analyses have since estimated the error of the projections they were conducting policy according to especially in the late 1970s.

"The Limits to Growth" (1971)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

Oil price shock (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

Oil crisis (1979)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis

"The Global 2000 Report to the President" (1980) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_2000_Report_to_the_...

1980-: expensive international meddling we're still paying for, increased government spending , increased taxes on the middle class, oil governor, oil dci, vp, president

1992-: significant reprieve from costly meddling, globalization, soccer, fallout from arms dropped on the eastern bloc after the end of the cold war, not much development in batteries or renewables, dot-com boom, WorldCom, GLBA deregulation, dot-com crash

2000s: humvees, hummers and ~18 MPG SUVs, debt (war expensed to national debt, tax cuts), oil commodity price volatility given an international production rate agreement, crony capitalist bailouts to top off the starve the beast scorched earth debt, almost 20 years of war with countries initially engaged in the 1980s, trillions in spending, tax cuts

"The Limits to Growth" (2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth :

> "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update" was published in 2004. The authors observed that "It is a sad fact that humanity has largely squandered the past 30 years in futile debates and well-intentioned, but halfhearted, responses to the global ecological challenge. We do not have another 30 years to dither. Much will have to change if the ongoing overshoot is not to be followed by collapse during the twenty-first century."
They probably replied but:

- anything serious is probably highly classified as is everything relating to COMSEC.

- The standard seems to be a US-one used by NATO (MIL-STD as opposed to a STANAG).

- I know ALE is used for link establishment but maybe it's going to be superseded in the military for the next-gen radio equipment?
David Bombal interviews a mysterious man where he shows how he uses AI/LLMs for his automated LinkedIn posts and other tasks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF-MQmVxnCs
That's cool, and certainly more accurate than blending filament.

Anyone have data on layer adhesion?

(I have a spool of Royal Blue Prusament that has the worst layer adhesion ever, for some reason. Fresh in my mind. :)
> In 1995 investors mistakenly thought investing in Netscape was a way to bet on the future

Maybe they were just too early, later on it turned out that the browser is indeed a very valuable and financially sound investment. For Google at least.

So having a dominant market share can indeed be even if the underlying tech is not exactly unobtainable by others.
No they didn't, read on Compaq clean room reverse engineering, the lawsuit, and IBM's failed attempt to regain the PC market with MCA and PS/2, after losing it.
These studies are correlations that ignore complex interactions. Something pushed that guy to smoke and same something also makes him likely to do other things culminating in earlier death. Another guy smokes all his life and lives into 90s with no issues because there was no "something". Another guy dies of suicide in his 30s because of loneliness because he did not have the excuse of cigarette to connect with people
Being in a post policy politics era means voters are too dumb to vote on policy and will vote on messaging.

No voter likes to know that they're dumb - but the fact that Donald Trump is soon the ROTUS implies they are.

Maybe more should be invested in education.
The question isn't if you're attacked and the attacker hides behind an innocent bystander and does nothing.

It's if you're attacked, the attacker hides behind an innocent bystander and continues attacking you, while at the same time he's holding your kid hostage and torturing him.

In that situation, I think most moral and legal systems say it is ok to risk the innocent bystander to save your child, if there is no other way to get him back.

(Of course, this isn't a perfect analogy either. Hamas is still holding a 100 hostages while hiding behind innocent people, but it's very much arguable whether "there is no other way to get the hostages back" at this point, among other things.)
I have taken this approach with personal projects as well. In the past, I divided up the functionality into a bunch of neatly-organized classes at the beginning and then implemented each one in separate files. Big mistake. Much better is to put it all into one, ugly file until the kinks are worked out and then organize it later, at least in my opinion. It’s also much better for working in a flow state so that I don’t have to switch between 8 different tabs.

So even for personal projects, what’s most important is the ugly MVP that does the thing. It’s only after that works that I clean it up.
That's because we have a society have generally decided that personal responsibility is not actually the appropriate lens with which to judge the sale of addictive products.
I haven’t had much luck identifying scenes in movies or books. Disappointing
The fundamental issue is that Joe voter is dumb - but you can't tell him that, or he won't vote for you (as Hillary Clinton found out).

The million-dollar question is: How to you make Joe voter be less dumb?
Interesting, the second instance you mentioned says that Jonathan Rulleri invented the game, which is false.
This is incredibly invaluable advice. I thank you very much for it and for the kind words. I came to some of the same conclusions myself and had some ideas on how to adress them but your github will definitely help. Thank you very much.
It is good enough for plumbing, bricklaying, food service etc. Why not coding.
The red meat studies are about as junky as they get for nutrition ones, ane people really love to fly the "red meat literally causes cancer" thing around as if it is gospel.
> Some CI runners are single core unless you pay more

I don't know which hypothetical CI runner you have in mind. Back in reality, most CICD services bill you on time spent running tests, not "core". Even core count is reflected as runtime multpliers. Moreover, services like GitHub not only offer a baseline of minutes per month, and on top of that provide support for self-hosted runners that cost you nothing.

> some tests are very hard to parallelise (integration, E2E)

No, that's simply false and fundamentally wrong. You can run any test on any scenario independently of any other test from another scenario. You need to go way out of your way to screw up a test suite so badly you have dependencies between tests covering different sets of features.

> If you need to run a hefty windows runner on GitHub it’s $0.54 per minute, so a 90 minute full suite will cost $50.

This argument just proves you're desperately grasping at straws.

The only Windows test runner from GitHub that costs that is their largest, most expensive runner: Windows 64-core runner. Do you need a Threadripper to use the app you're testing?

Even so, that hypothetical cost is only factored in if you run out of minutes from your plan, and you certainly do not order Windows 64-core runners from your free tier plan.

Even in your hypothetical cost-conscious scenario, GitHub actions do support self-hosted runners, which cost zero per minute.

> You could be better with different tests running at PR/Nightly (...)

None of the hypothetical scenarios you fabricated pose a concern. Even assuming you need a Windows machine with 64 processor cores to do an E2E test run of your app, the most basic intro to automated testing tutorial and test pyramids mentions how these tests can and often run on deployments to pre-prod and prod stages. This means that anyone following the most basic intro tutorial on the topic will manage to sidestep any of your hypothetical scenarios by gating auto promotions to prod.
We know where your car is (DE)
Don't come to Serbia, as we still allow smoking inside in bars, clubs and even restaurants!
Archibald Low published a book in 1922 titled The Future. Courtesy of the Digital Library of India and the Internet Archive, here are some excerpts:

“One of the greatest blessings of television will be to bring the most expensive educational facilities within the reach of all, and the creation of a mental aristocracy. Specialists lecturing at one university or school will have a vast audience, for any number of other schools could be linked up by wireless, enabling the pupils to follow the lecture, both by the spoken word and of the reproduction of diagrams upon the wireless controlled blackboard.”

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n61...

“Science may place at the disposal of future men forces so great that an entire army or city could be annihilated in a second, and it is little exaggeration to state that if the gifts of science were grossly misused man might entirely disappear from the world.”

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n73...

“During his dressing and quickly dispatched breakfast snack, a pleasant toned loud speaker will keep [the man of the future] informed of all the world’s happenings, while his television machine will give him glimpses of the events mentioned in the news. By altering the wave length on his directional short wave selective set he will hear just the type of world’s news that interests him at the moment.”

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n11...

“Birth-control methods will be vastly improved. The discovery of a simple drug which would render persons sterile for a few hours would alter half our civilized life and confer a vast fortune upon the inventor. X-rays will render a man sterile; the period may eventually be controlled or corrected by some other form of electrical emanation.”

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n14...

“Squadrons of wireless-controlled aeroplanes, or aerial torpedoes, will manoeuvre accurately under the signalled instructions from the base, taking photographs, releasing bombs and disease at will.”

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n16...

“To-day a young man is ruled by sex; the blending of male and female, (few one hundred per cent. men and women are to be found), will maintain advancement and lead us to a period where thought is not broken by the smell of a beefsteak, a scented woman, or an expensive garter.”

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n11...
If it's about taxes why not impose a tax on ecigs?
While I agree on your point regarding midterm reckoning, I'm afraid people DID vote for Trump, he even won the popular vote - which is mind numbing: Americans actually WANTED to install a proven criminal and rapist as president.
So Barcelona homelessness is going up and Los Angeles homelessness is going down? The only reasonable conclusion must be that the homeless are relocating from Los Angeles to Barcelona. It is only a question of time then.
The trans topic is a wedge issue that has absolutely no impact on 99% of people. Many of the things people like to bring up when complaining about "a shift to the left" are fringe ideas even on the left, and are amplified by right-wingers who are trying to paint the left as out of touch with reality.

Having said that, age-appropriate sex ed in elementary school (e.g. talking about bodily autonomy and consent) is actually a good idea, since children at that age are often victims of sexual abuse and don't understand exactly what is happening to them.

And if you genuinely get bent out of shape about tampons in mens bathrooms, I'm really happy for you. Your life must be genuinely amazing that something so meaningless even warrants being mentioned as a point of contention. Personally, as somebody who sometimes purchases tampons for his wife, it seems at best marginally useful, and at worst completely irrelevant to me.

The economy topic is hardly a left-wing issue. People on the right cheered for Luigi just as much as people on the left, because they're suffering just as much, or more. What is happening here is not the left moving to the left, it's poor people being disenfranchised and reacting to it. This is also a major reason why Trump got elected: people have so little trust in the current system that they'd rather vote for somebody who promises to break it, than for somebody who promises to improve it.

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "communists/socialists", since those two words have been stripped of all meaning in the US.

"It wasn't a policy shift, it's attempting to save face"

You're just using different words, but you're saying the same thing I did: it's a shift to the right. It's also dumb and counterproductive, because immigration is not the source of people's problems, and curtailing immigration in the way it is currently being done will only make things worse, but that is besides the point.
> using a knowledge system that will be censored (not that other countries won't be censored) and trained in a way that may not align with a nation's beliefs is a whole different matter.

this is the exact same story told to the public when Google was kicked out of China. you are just 15 years late for the party.
Walmart has been a tech company since the 80s. The way Walmart got so big is that the created a literal network between stores so they could do logistics at scale. They had the largest database at the time.

Walmart is still the largest company in the world by revenue, with Amazon at its heels, with Amazon's profit beating out Walmart's.

A lot of this thread, I think, is just fantasy land that Amazon is somehow:

1. Destroying Walmart and Target in a way they can't compete.

2. Is more tech savvy than Walmart and Target.

C'mon, read the history of Walmart, it's who put technology into retail.
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